FELLOWSHIP STRETCHED - The Fokker 100 has now been in airline service for almost a year, and, as a successor to the F28 Fellowship, is at the start of a promising production run and service life, as this account describes.
WITH A MISSION TO FLY - The Mission Aviation Fellowship began modestly more than 40 years ago when a Miles Gemini left Croydon for Africa. Today, as here described by Gordon Levett, MAF has close to 150 aircraft in worldwide service.
THE SRI LANKA AIR FORCE TODAY - Events of the last two years in Sri Lanka have given that nation's small air force a more aggressive part to play than hitherto, as related in this illustrated account.
SIL-96: A GLASNOST VIEW - Based on experience gained with the II-86 over the past 10 years, the Ilyushin design bureau has now produced the II-96 as the first variant in a family of long-range wide-
AIRSCENE - The monthly round-up of news and background to the news, presented under section headings for Military Affairs, Aircraft and Industry, Civil Affairs and new Civil Aircraft Contracts.
TALKBACK - Readers of AIR International offer comments of general interest.
SOUTHAMPTON ROLL-OVER - A "Veteran and Vintage" item recording progress with the restoration for the RAF Museum of the hull of a Supermarine Southampton.
IN PRINT - New aviation literature noted.
MODEL ENTHUSIAST - Modelling comments, the latest kits reviewed and a selection of colour profiles of the Noorduyn Norseman.
FIGHTER A TO Z - Continuing the AIR International encyclopaedia of the world's fighter aircraft, from the NAMC J-12 to the North American NA-50.
THE MIGHTY DREAM - First details and illustrations of the six-engined Antonov An-225 Mriya.
SB: THE RADICAL TUPOLEV - Concluding, from the January and February issues, the "Warbirds" account of the Tupolev SB-2.

FRONT COVER - Photographed on an early test flight last year, the Ilyushin 11-96 is the first of a new generation of Soviet airliners with which Aeroflot will re-equip in the 'nineties.